Bottoms up! These are the Russell Group unis with the most pubs in 2024
I finally understand why people go to uni in London
University rankings like the Times Good University Guide and the Complete University Guide consider many factors like graduate employment rates and quality of teaching when they rank the Russell Group unis. Instead, maybe they should base their maths on what actually matters the most to students – proximity to pubs.
The travel site OMIO counted how many pubs there are in different UK uni cities. Surely students at Russell Group unis will need plenty of trips to pubs in order to recuperate from all that studying they’ve been doing (or tell their parents they’ve been doing, anyway).
Durham may not be the best uni to go to if you like going to the pub. The city had just 20 pubs to serve a student population of 22,000. Atrocious. Presumably this is yet another reason why Durham students all wish they’d gone to Oxbridge – Both Cambridge and Oxford have twice as many pubs as Durham has.
Imperial College London, King’s College London, LSE and Queen Mary University of London top the charts, which makes sense considering that it’s easier to find a pub in London than it is a load of bread. OMIO estimates that there are a thousand pubs in London. It’s a shame that London uni students will practically have to sell their spleens in order to afford a pint.
Here are UK Russell Group unis ranked by how many pubs are in the city, from most to least:
17. Durham University – 20 pubs
16. University of Exeter – 3o pubs
15. University of Cambridge – 42 pubs
14. University of Oxford – 43 pubs
13. University of York – 47 pubs
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Imagine paying 20 grand and not being able to walk to a pub
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12. Cardiff University – 67 pubs
11. Newcastle University – 123 pubs
10. University of Bristol – 138 pubs
9. University of Leeds – 157 pubs
8. University of Glasgow – 163 pubs
7. University of Edinburgh – 180 pubs
6. University of Manchester – 191 pubs
5. University of Liverpool – 203 pubs
=1. Imperial College London, King’s College London, LSE and Queen Mary University London – 1,000 pubs
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